Pelican Rescue.

While crabbing in crescent city with my family these to fine fellas came waltzing on up to see what we were up to. They were in petting distance. I've never seen pelicans get this close to humans before!

We were having a blast with these two, giving them some of our raw fish that we had for crab bait and playing with them. Then I noticed that something was wrong with one of their wings. There was something wrapped around it as you can see in this picture.

He was trembling and in obviously in pain. I had to do something or this guy may not live long. Luckily they were close enough that we were able to grab him and restrain him to help him out.

When my mom had grabbed him and held him tight, I saw that it was heavy duty fishing string and a 1.5oz weight that had gotten tightly wrapped around his wing, cutting into his flesh and damaging his wing.

From what I could tell, it was as if a fisherman had cast his line out right has he was flying by and it snagged him in his wing. Luckily there wasn't a fishing hook in there also.

when I finally got the last bit of string cut and the mess removed, this guy waddled off. I could tell that he was happier and in less pain. I've never in my life seen such joy in a bird.

This is the mess that was in his wing. I had such a good feeling from helping this pelican :) I hope that when other people are faced with a situation like this that they will do what it takes to help out. It's such an amazing feeling. :)